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The following pages contain a compilation of 
ancient prophecy, pointing out the present and 
future of the Jews and of Israel. 

The purpose of the author is to place in the 
hands of the reader a Monitor w^hich, it is hoped, 
will be Ihe means of diffusing light, not only 
among Hebrews but to all people, relative to Je- 
hovah's purposes in the immediate future. 

The renewal of the Jewish nation and the reor- 
ganizing of the tribes of Israel are particularly 
foreshadowed and carefully pointed out by the 
Prophets, who were made acquainted with God's 
purposes to the latest generation. 

Believing that He Who foresaw and foretold the 
Babylonish captivity of 70 years duration, did also 
behold, through the vista of time, a much longer 
dispersion of his chosen people ; and that he has 
foretold a great reunion at Jerusalem, which 
is made the burden of this small volume. 

The ancient together with modern evidences of 
the return of the Jews to their own country are 
herein clearly set forth. 

Due credit is given to historians and writers as 
well as recent travelers in the Holy Land, so far 
as known to the author. 

Respectfully, 

Frank Reynolds. 



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AND 

GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND, 



PART -^IRST. 



PRESENT AND FUTURE OP ISRAEL. 



Remember the former things of old : for I am 
God, aur* 'here is none else ; I am God, and there 
is none like me, 

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from 
ancient times the things that are not yet done, say- 
ing, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my 
pleasm-e : (Isaiah 46 :9-10. 

But ye, O 'mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot 
forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my 
people of Israel ; fr»r they are at hand to come. 

For, behold I, am for you, and I will turn unto 
yoLi, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 

And I will multiply men upon you, all the 
house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall 
be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded : 

And I will multiply upon you man and beast ; 
and they shall increase and bring fruit : and I will 
settle you after your old estates, and will do better 
unto you than at your beginnings : and ye shall 
know that I am the Lord. (Ezekiel 36 :8-ll). 



10 THE J E WISH MONITOR AND 



The following recent history of the present sit- 
uation of Palestine is veiy encouraging: 

"It seems to be a well established fact that the 
last three or four years have witnessed a return 
of the Jews 1o Palestine from every quarter of the 
globe. The number going from Russia is entire- 
ly unprecedented. The Hebrew population of 
Jerusalem is more than double what it was ten 
years ago, and the movement i^ going on rapidly. 
Most of the city property is now in the hands of 
Jews, who have gone there from other countries, 
and in a few years' time they will probably be 
the owners of the whole city." 

The speedy change wrought in Palestine has 
even astonished the wise of this age. In 1830 no 
visible change was witnessed different from that 
which had been common to that land for nearly 
eighteen centuries; but from 1880 to 1850, rain 
began to fall again in Palestine, and the ancient 
villages began to revive, and farms opened up ; 
and in 1858 a surplus of fine wheat was sent to 
different parts — such a thing not having occurred 
for many centuries. 

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the 
Lord will do great things. 

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field : for the 
pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree 
beareth her fruit, the tig tree and the vine do yield 
their strength. 

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice 
in the Lord your God : for he hath given you the 
former rain moderately, and he will cause to come 
down for you the rain, the former rain, and the 
latter rain in the first month. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 11 

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the 
fats shall overflow with the wine and oil. 

And I will restore to you the years that the lo, 
oust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiL 
lar, and the palmerworm, nfy great army I sent 
among you. 

And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and 
praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath 
dealt wondrous]}'- with joii : and my people shall 
never be ashamed. 

And ye shall know that I am in the midst of 
Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none 
else : and my people shall never be ashamed. 

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will 
pour out my Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons 
and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men 
shall dream dreams, your young men shall see 
visions : 

And also upon the servants and upon the hand, 
maids in those days will I, pour out my Spirit. 

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in 
the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
moon into blood, before the great and the terrible 
day of the Lord come. 

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall 
call^ on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: 
for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be de. 
liverance, as the Lord hath said^ and in the rem- 
nant whom the Lord shall call. (Joel 2 :21-32). 

The restoration of the abundant harvest of grain, 
fruit, etc., prior to God sending his ''Spirit upon 
all flesh," is inevitable, and may we not make the 
application in these times ? 

''The result of Dr, Barclay's observations goes to 
show that the greatest fall of rain at Jerusalem in 



12 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



a single year "was eighty-five inches, and the small- 
est forty-four, the mean being 51 1-6. These 
tigm-es will be best appreciated by recollecting 
that the average rain-fall at London during the 
whole year is only twenty-five inches, and that in 
the wettest parts of the country, such as Cumber- 
land and Devon, it rarely exceeds 50 inches. As 
in the time of our Savior, (Luke 12 :54), the rain 
comes chiefi}^ fi-om the south, or southwest ; they 
commence at the end of October, or beginning of 
November, and continue wthi greater or less con- 
stancy till the end of Februar}^, or middle of March 
and occasionally, though rarely, till the end of 
April. Between April and November, there is, 
with the rarest exception, an uninterrupted period 
of fine weather, and skies without a cloud ; during 
tMe summer the dews are very heav3^ and often 
saturate the traveler's tent, as if a shower had 
passed over it. The nights, especially towards 
sunrise, are very cold, and thick fog or mists are 
common all over the countrj^ Thunder-storms 
of great violence are frequent during the winter 
months." 

The following tabular statement of the fall of 
rain between 1846 and 1853, as stated by Dr. Mac- 
gowan, then residing at Jerusalem, Avilb doubt- 
less, prove interesting : 

RATN--FALL IN JERUSALEM FROM 1846 TO 1853, IN INCHES, 
ACCORDING TO NEWMAN'S RAIN-GAUGE. 

Early Rains | 1846-7 | 1847-8 | 1848-9 i (*) | 1850-1 | 1851-2 1 1852-3 
Total.... 20 1-5 43 3-5 35 3-5 54 4-5 28 4-5 15 3-5 

Latter Rains. 

Total.... 38 4-5 7 2-5 25 30 1-5 36 1-5 24 3-5 

(*) 1849-0 not registered. 

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : 
for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. 

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and 
favor the dust thereof. ( Psalms 102 :13-14.) 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 13 

To favor Zion, would be to fully organize her 
I people upon the land consecrated to them for an 
'everlasting possession. The following will rep- 
resent the manner the organization will take 
place : 

And their nobles shall be of themselves and 
their Governor shall proceed from the midst of 
I them ; and I will cause him to draw near, and he 
shall approach unto me: (Jer. 80:21.) 

The Rev. Bonhomme says : 

"Whatever opinion may be formed as to the 
special mode in which the attempts are made to 
restore the Jews to Palestine, the circumstaDces 
that the attention of so many individuals. Israel- 
ites and Christians as well as some of the crown dtl 
heads of Europe, has been called to the national 
prosperity of God's literal Israel, cannot be over- 
looked by the Hebrew Nation. In view of the 
Providential interference at this time, the Jews 
feel that they are no longer outcasts and despised, 
and they cannot remain indifierent to what is 
taking place. 

Political changes are every year taking place 
in the East, which augur well for the Jews, ancl 
present appearances favor the expectations that 
further changes will soon so dispose the nations 
about Palestine, that the scattered millions of Is- 
rael may be restored to their native land. 

The late projects of two eminent Jews, Roths- 
child and Sir Moses Montefiore, the first to pur- 
chase Jerusalem and its neighboring places, as a 
refuge and home to all Jews wishing to return to 
a land consecrated by a thousand sacred associa- 
tions, and the latter to secure, by a sort of lease, 
the possession of several towns and villages held 



14 THE JEWISH MONITOK AND 

sacred by tUe Jews, for the purpose of colonizing 
them there, may indicate one means by which the 
Jew may be reinstated into more than his orig, 
inal civil privileges. 

***** A party of wealthy 
gentlemen from England left for Jerusalem, with 
the purpose of commencing a colony in Jerico. 
At Tyre and Si don also, an architect from England 
proceeded, with men and means, to commence a 
colony. 

An eminent Jew purchased land in the vicinity 
of Jerusalem, and about Jaffa, upon which Jews 
are settled and laboring. A wealthy Jew^ess, the 
widow of a rich banker, Madame Polac, resident 
at Koenigsberg, Prussia, purchased the Mount of 
Olives, in order to beautify the place with im, 
provements at her own expense. The ftrst thing 
she did was to plant the whole area with a grove 
of olive trees, and thus to restore it to the original 
state of beauty from which it derives its name." 

At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the 
God of all the families of Israel, and they shall 
be my people. 

Thus saith the Lord, The people which were 
left of the sword foand grace in the wilderness; 
even Israel, when I w^ent to cause him to rest. 

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, say, 
ing. Yea, I have loved thee with an- everlasting 
love ; therefore with loving^kindness have I drawn 
thee, 

Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, 
O virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned 
with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances 
of them that make meriy. 

Thou shalt yet plant vmes upon the mountains 
of Samaria : the planters shall plant, and shall eat 
them as common things. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAKD. 15 



For there shall be a day, that the watchmen up- 
on the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and 
let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God. 

For thus saith the Lord ; Sing with gladness for 
Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations : 
publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord^ save thy 
people, the remnant of Israel. 

Behold, I will bring them from the north coun- 
try, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, 

i and with them the blind and the lame, the woman 
with child and her that travaileth with child to- 
gether : a great company shall return thither. 

i They shall come with weeping, and with sup- 

' plications will I lead them : I will cause them to 
walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, 
wherein they shall not stumble : for I am a father 

j to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 

I Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and 
declare it in the isles afar off, and say. He that 
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as 
a shepherd doth his flock. 

> For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ran- 
! somed him from the hand of him that was strong- 

> er than he. 

I Therefore they shall come and sing in the height 
j of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness 
i of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil : 
j and for the young of the flock and of the herd, 
I and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and 

they shall not sorrow any more at all. (Jeremi* 

ah 31 :1-12.) 

The Rev. Bonhomme further says : 

In turning our attention to the prospects of 
this people, we behold an ever-active Providence 
in preparing the way for restoring his chosen na- 
tion to the land of their fathers, and to the favor 
of their God, and to the beloved, their Messiah, 



16 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



Prince and King^. The time is near at hand when 
this standing monument of Divine displeasure, 
this once higlxly honored but now scattered and 
dispersed family, is to be gathered from ^11 the 
nations whither the Lord their God has scattered 
them. 

When this period shall have come — come it 
must — it will be an eventful period for the world. 
(Micah 7 :18-20.) The Prophet, anticipating their 
restoration, says: "An highway shall be made 
for them, as in the days of Assyria, when they 
came up out of the land of Egypt." When this 
people w^ent down into Egypt, the Assyrian op, 
pressed them. When the Lord was about to de, 
liver them, he called Moses, the man of God, and 
said unto him, "I have seen the affliction of my 
people, and am come down to deliver them." — 
Every difficulty was taken out of the way, and 
they went out triumphantly. In like manner, 
when the seventy years of Babylon's captivity 
had expired, the Lord inclined the hearts of Da. 
rius and Cyrus, by whose decrees in their favor 
every hindrantie was removed for their return to 
their own beloved land. In fact, the only plan 
which would tend to effectually secure the peace 
and pros])erity of Palestine, would be the settle^ 
ment of the many millions of them there; being 
an active, enterprising people, they would soon 
rid the land of the marauding Arab tribes and 
promote its welfare in every respect. 

Recent discoveries made in Africa and Japan, 
among the AfFghans and Chinese, will swell the 
number greatly. Having taken special pains 
within the last twenty years to collect carefully 
from missionaxy statistics fia*nislied by the mis, 
sionaries sent am.ong the Jews throughout the 
world — missionaries numbering between two hun- 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND, IT 

clred and three hundred — a source most reliable — 
the following is a table, in specified order, as to 
the actual number of Jews scattered : 

China, including Ka-Fung-fu 60,000 

Russian Provinces in Asia 3,000 

Russia proper. 1,200,000 

Poland - 2,000,000 

Prussia proper 135,000 

Anstria 453,524 

Confederate States of Germany 138,000 

Amsterdam, in Holland 35,000 

The Netherlands., , 50,000 

France 81,000 

Italy 200,000 

England , , 60,000 

Ionian Isles 7,000 

Danish States , 15,000 

Sweden 1,700 

Switzerland 1,900 

Gibralter ,.,.,..., 4,000 

Galatia ......,,, 200,000 

Netherlandish Colonies ,.,.,, 500 

Kingstown, West Indies ,...., 5.000 

Demarara, Esquibo ,..,.,,.,,,.. 200 

New Holland , 50 

St. Domingo, ,,...,,,,,.. ^ , .... , 5,000 

Porto Rico , 3,300 

United States . . 700,000 

South America 10,000 

Fez, in Africa and Morocco, , , . , , , . 300,000 

Tunis 130,000 

i^lgjers , , . 30.000 

Habesh... .., ,,,. 20,000 

Tripoli , ^ ^ ^ . 12,000 

Egypt. 12,000 

In the Turkish Dominions in Europe 

and Asia 2,500,000 



18 THE J E WISH MONITOR AND 



Those discovered in the East, as men- 
tioned in 2 Kings 17:6, the original 
country where the ten tribes were car- 
ried away captive, the identified ten 
tribes of which we have a complete 
history of recent dates 7,000.000 



A grand total of. 15,000,000 

And their seed shall be known among the Gen- 
tiles, and their offspring among the people: all 
that see them shall acknowledge them, that they 
are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. (Isa- 
iah 61:9.) 

That Jews are known, wherever the sun shines, 
is true : And when it is known that Jehovah ap- 
pears once more in their defense upon the moun- 
tains of Israel, all people will have to acknowledge 
the unexpected favor extended to them. 

Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold : all 
these gather themselves together and come to thee. 
As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe 
thee with them alL as with an ornament, and bind 
them on thee, as a bride doeth. 

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the 
land of thy destruction, shall even now be too 
narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that 
swallowed thee up shall be far aw^ay. 

The children which thou shalt have, after thou 
hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, 
The place is too strait for me : give place to me 
that I may dwell. 

Then shalt thou say in thine heart. Who hath 
begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, 
and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 19 



fro ? and who hath brought up these ? Behold, I 
was left alone; these, where had they been? 

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up 
mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard 
to the people : and they shall bring thy sons in 
their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried 
upon their shoulders. 

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their 
queens thy nursing mothers : Ihey shall bow down 
to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick 
up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that 
I am the Lord : for they shall not be ashamed that 
wait for me. (Isaiah 49 :18-23.) 

"Among the signs of the times may be noted a 
fact which will interest many Christians. The 
Rev. James Neil, an English clergyman who has 
lived for some time in Jerusalem, has written a 
book, in which he says that the Jews are returning 
in large numbers to Palestine. So great is the 
influx of new-comers, chiefly Jews Irom Russia, 
that the population of Palestine has doubled with- 
in the last ten years. 

At Laplied, one of the four holy cities of Galilee, 
there was, three years ago, so large an emigration 
that many of the immigrants had to camp out, 
the houses being insufficient to contain them. 

Building goes on in Jerusalem in the night as 
well as in the day, and a plot of ground near the 
city has been sold for twenty times its former price. 
The apparent causes of this migration are first, 
that now Jews are permitted to own land in Pal- 
estine without becoming Turkish subjects; and 
secoadly, the new law in Russia (1874) which 
compels all Jews to be enrolled for military serv- 
ice." 

Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, 
whither I have driven tlism in mine anger, and 



20 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



in my fury^ and in great wrath ; and I will bring 
them again unto this place, and I will cause them 
to dwell safely t 

And they shall be my people, and I will be 
their God : 

And I will give them one heart, and one way, 
that tliey may fear me for ever, lor the good of 
them, and of their children after them: 

And 1 will make an everlasting covenant with 
them, that I will not turn away from them, to do 
them good ; but I will put my fear in their hearts, 
that they shall not depart from vne, 

Yea, 1 will rejoice over them to do them good, 
and I will plant them in this land assuredly with 
my whole heart and with my whole soul. 

For thus saith the Lord ; Like as I have brought 
all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring 
Upon them all the good that I have promised them. 

And fields shall be bought in this land, where- 
of ye say, It is desolate without man or beast ; it 
is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 

Men shall buy fields for monej^, and subscribe 
evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in 
the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Je- 
rusalem, and in the cities of Judali, and in the 
cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the; 
valley, and in the cities of the south : for I will 
cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord. — 
Jer, 32 :37^44.) 

"Sir Moses Monteflore, now in the 92d year of 
liis age, a few months back paid a seventh visit 
to Jerusalem for the purpose of collecting infor- 
mation relating to the actual condition of tlie 
Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land, as to their 
capability and inclination to engage in mechan- 
ical and general 1 agricultural pursuits. The report 
(the London Times says) is now i3nblished, with 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 21 



a letter to Sir Moses from two of the leading Rab- 
bles of Jerusalem, in which they refute the charg- 
es of disinclination to work of the Jews of Jeru- 
salem while there was a possibility of obtaining 
sufficient charity to enable them to live. It is 
known that, in order to give a refutation to these 
charges. Sir Moses Montefiore determined to un- 
dertake a mission to the Holy City and report on 
his observations. Sir Moses states that a whole 
village has been pointed out to him w^hich might 
be purchased at a moderate rate. All the persons 
Who reported to Sir Moses on this subject stated 
that there would be no difficulty whatever in se- 
curing as much land as might be required, either 
for cultivation or building purposes. The Gov- 
ernor and Kadi of Jerusalem assured him of the 
readiness of the Turkish Government to render 
every possible assistance to encourage any indus- 
trial scheme for the promotion of the welfare of 
the people in the Holy Land. The French and 
American Consuls also assured him of their wil- 
lingness to assist. Sir Moses states that a great 
struggle may arrise in the future between the ed- 
ucated or Progressive party — those who do not 
come to the Holy City from religious motives, but 
from reasons connected with special circumstan- 
ces — and the strictly conservative party, whose 
sole object in going to Jerusalem was the preser- 
vation of their religion. During his short stay at 
Jaffa, Sir Moses Montefiore noticed some indica- 
tions to that effect. Sir Moses gives a long ac- 
count of the different institutions established in 
Jerusalem for the benefit of the poor. There is 
a soup kitchen; a loan society, whose object it is 
to make advances without interest; a hospice, 
which provides every poor person coming to Je- 
rusalem with gratuitous board and lodging until 



22 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



he may have procured for himself a suitable resi- 
dence; three building societies, etc. Sir Moses 
says : "I had some conversation on the subject of 
general drainage in Jerusalem with a gentleman 
of authority. He told me that all the refuse of 
the city is now carried into the pool of Bethesda, 
which, strange to say, I was informed, is close to 
the house intended for the barracks, and the sol- 
diers living there appear not to experience the 
least inconvenience on account of its vicinity. If 
arrangements could be made to clear that pool en- 
tirely, to admit pure water only, and to dig special 
pools for the purpose of conducting there the city 
drains, Jerusalem might become free from any 
threatening epidemic. All the doctors in Jerusa- 
lem assured me that the Holy City might be reck- 
oned, on account of the purity of the atmosphere, 
one of the healthiest of places." Sir Moses speaks 
of the skill of Jewish mechanics in Jerusalem, 
where it has been said that there are no Jewish 
mechanics in the Holy City. Sir Moses saw 
watchmakers, engravers, lithographers, iiiculptors, 
goldsmiths, bookbinders and carpenters, and, he 
says, "all did their work most satisfactorily." A 
watchmaker into whose hands he gave a valuable 
repeater for repair, put it within a very short time, 
into excellent order. The same man, in addition 
to his skill as a watchmaker, displayed also great 
talent as a Hebrew caligraphist. He presented 
Sir Moses with a grain of wheat on which were 
written nineteen lines, forming an acrostic on the 
name of the venerable philanthropist. The trav- 
eler states that he has had every opportunity of 
convincing himself that the Jews are eager and 
willing to engage in any kind of labor, agricultu- 
ral or otherwise, which will obtain for them the 
necessaries of life and place them above the need 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 23 

of the charity of their benevolent co-religionists. 
I Sir Moses says that the great regard which he has 
i always entertained toward his brethren in the Ho- 
ly Land has now become, if possible, doubly in- 
creased, and he emphatically asserts that they are 
deserving of assistance ; they are willing and able 
to work, their mental powers are of a satisfactory 
nature, and all Israelites ought to render them 
i support." 

And it shall come to pass, when all these things 
are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, 
which I have set before thee, and shalt call them 
to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord 
thy God hath driven thee, 

And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and 
I shalt obey his voice according to all that I com- 
mand thee this day, thou and thy children, with 
all thine heart, and with all thy soul ; 

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy cap- 
tivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will 
return and gather thee from all the nations, whith- 
er the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. 

If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost 
! parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God 
gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee : 
I And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the 
I land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt 
j possess it ; and he will do thee good, and multiply 
thee above thy fathers. (Deut. 30 :l-5.) 

I Col. J. P. Sanford, a recent traveler in China, 
i Egypt and Palestine, now lecturing in the United 
I States upon what he saw abroad, states that fruit 
grows in abundance in Palestine; that he saw 
grapes that weighed seven pounds to the bunch 
' and that bunches generally ranged from four to 



24 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

ten pounds each: That Jews were emigrating 
there from all parts of the world, and when they 
arrived much time was first spent in 'Sprayer and 
wailing," beseeching God to bless and renew their 
land by his omnipotent hand saying, "how long 

Lord, until thou wilt favor again our desolate 
homes r" 

In that day w^ill I raise up the tabernacle of Da. 
vid that is fallen, and close up the breaches there> 
of: and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build 
it as in the days of old : 

That they may possess the remnant of Edom, 
and of all the heathen, which are called by my 
name, saith the Lord that doeth this. 

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the 
ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the 
treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the 
mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills 
shall melt 

And I will bring again the captivity of my peo, 
pie of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, 
and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, 
and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make 
gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 

And I will plant them upon their land, and they 
shall no more be pulled up out of their land which 

1 have given them, saith the Lord thy God.-» 
(Amos 9:11-15.) 

The following is from a recent traveler in that 
country of my acquaintance j 

"I arrived in Indiana a few days since, from 
the Eastern Continent. I stopped at Joppa nearly 
the whole winter. For my part I was well pleased 
with the country, it is certainly a land of most 
wonderful fruitful ness, with a delightsome cli- 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 25 

mate, producing everything if properly cultivated, 
and from two to three crops in a year. They have 
grain, fruit and vegetables all the year round ; in 
fact I never was in such a country before. I have 
seen much good country in Europe and America, 
but none to compare with Palestine ; its fruitful- 
ness is uncommon, and the climate the most de- 
lightsome ; even in winter I did not see the least 
sort of frost, and vegetables of every sort were 
growing in perfection in gardens. It is a fact that 
the rain and dew are restored ; recently, in 185e3, the 
former and the latter rains were restored, to the 
astonishment of the natives. The Jews have been 
returning to the Holy Land for some time, and 
are increasing, going to their beloved Canaan 
from many parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. — 
They are making preparations to rebuild cities 
and build railroads. The fruit in Palestine is 
better than in Europe and America. They have 
camels, mules, horses, asses, cattle, sheep and 
goats ; but I saw no hogs. The natives are gen- 
erally friendly." 

The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall 
come bending unto thee; and all they that des- 
pised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles 
of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of 
the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so 
that no man went through thee ; I will make thee 
an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 

Thou Shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, 
and Shalt suck the breast of kings : and thou shalt 
know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy 
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will 
hring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones 



26 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and 
thine exactors righteousness. (Isaiah 60:14-17). 

The Lord has always worked b}^ means, and oft- 
en used the basest of men to perform his deter- 
mined purposes : For instance, Cyrus, a heathen 
king, was even named two hundred years before 
he was born, as being the one to restore Israel 
from Babylonish captivity to their own land. 

Who are they that now fear the future changes ? 
They are the nations with whom abide the wealthy 
Israelites : The abundance of the precious metals 
will be brought up from some quarter, and the 
entire globe will feel the effects of its transit ; but 
will they remember that God is at the helm ? 

For I know their works and their thoughts : it 
shall come, that I Avill gather all nations and 
tongues ; and they shall come, and see my glory. 

And I will set a sign among them and I will send 
those that escape of them unto the nations, to 
Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to 
Tubal and J a van, to the isles afar off, that have 
not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory ; 
and they shall declare my glory among the Gen- 
tiles. 

And they shall bring all your brethren for an 
offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon 
horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon 
mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy moun- 
tain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of 
Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the 
house of the Lord. 

And I will also take of them for priests and for 
Levites, saith the Lord. 

For as the new heavens, and the new earth, 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 27 

which I will make, shall remain before me, saith 
the liOrd, so shall your seed and your name re- 
main. (Isaiah 66 :18-22). 

By what power, or means, God will "Set a sign 
among the nations," I do not propose to conjec- 
ture, further than the Bible will warrant. Amos 
tells us how God works : 

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he 
revealeth his secret unto his servants the proph- 
ets. (Amos 3 :7). 

The prophets come from the house of Israel. — 
God has never raised up a prophet outside of 
Abraham's seed since the promise was bestowed 
upon him, viz : "That in thee and in thy seed shall 
all the nations of the Earth be blessed." Neither 
has God ever promised to raise up a prophet 
among the Gentiles : Hence, since the dissolving 
of the Jewish nation, darkness, even "Gross dark- 
ness" has covered the people. 

O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from th}^ 
ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear V Re- 
turn for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine in- 
heritance. 

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but 
a little while: our adversaries have trodden 
down thy sanctuary. 

We are thine : thou never barest rule over them ; 
they were not called by thy name. (Isa. 63 :17-19.) 

Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem ; 
and say. Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, 
gather together, and say. Assemble yourselves and 
let us go into the defenced cities. 

Set up the standard toward Zion : retire, stay 



28 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a 
great destruction. 

The lion is come up from his thicket, and the 
destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way ; he is gone 
forth from his place to make thy land desolate ; 
and thy cities shall he laid waste, without an in- 
habitant. (Jer. 4 :5-7). 

The following, from the "Christian Union," re- 
veals the position of thousands of the Hebrew 
people in past centuries : 

Just now, both in this country and in Europe, 
there is what we may call an epidemic of the 
Jewish question. Here, as well as there, the dis- 
cussion is but the rebound of circumstances. Mr. 
Disraeli was thought to have drawn upcm his very 
opulent oriental imagination when he stated, some 
years ago, that in all parts of the world there 
were Jews, who, shrinking from the excruciating 
contempt and aversion of mankind, concealecl 
their faith, not only for a life-time, but for gener- 
ations. Some facts have lately come to the sur- 
face which indicate that Disraeli knew what he 
was talking about. For example, it is mentioned 
in a recent number of the "Jewish Chronicle," 
that a company of Jews at Berlin brought to the 
Shah, on the occasion of the latter's visit there, a 
petition imploring him to protect the Jews in Per- 
sia; and that a stern Persian, belonging to the 
Royal Suit, who had received and closel}^ ques- 
tioned the delegation, quietly informed them that 
their memorial should really reach the Shah, for 
he, the stern Persian aforesaid, was a concealed 
Jew, though obliged to deny his faith. Since the 
religious emancipation of Austria and Spain, 
there have been numerous conversions to Juda- 
ism, which were in reality nothing more than the 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAKD. 29 

open avowal of Judaism by "Catholic" families 
who perhaps for ages, have remained Jews in 
sympathy and faith and domestic habits, while 
they have outwardly assented to the dominant and 
domineering religion. 

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and 
the captivity of Israel to return, and will build 
them, as at the first. 

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, 
whereby they have sinned against me ; and I will 
pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sin- 
ned, and whereby they have transgressed against 
me. 

And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise 
and an honour before all the nations of the 
earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto 
them : and they shall fear and tremble for all the 
goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure 
unto it. 

Thus saith the Lord ; Again there shall be heard 
in this place, which ye say shall be desolate with- 
out man and without beast, even in the cities of 
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are 
desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, 
and without beast. 

The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the 
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the 
bride, the voice of them that shall say. Praise the 
Lord of hosts : for the Lord is good ; for his mercy 
endureth for ever : and of them that shall bring 
the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. 
For I will cause to return the captivity of the 
land, as at the first, saith the Lord. 

Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Again in this 
place, which is desolate without man and without 
beast,and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habita- 
tion of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 



30 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of 
the vale, and in the cities of the soutli, and in the 
land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jeru- 
salem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks 
pass again under the hands of him that telleth 
them, saith the Lord. 

. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I 
will perform that good thing which I have prom- 
ised unto the house of Israel and to the house of 
Judah. 

In those days, and at that time, will I cause the 
Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; 
and he shall execute judgment and righteousness 
in the land. 

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusa- 
lem shall dwell safely : and this is the name where- 
with she shall be called. The Lord our Righteous- 
ness. 

For thus saith the Lord ; David shall never want 
a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Is- 
rael: (Jer. 33:7-17). 

The days in which Judah shall be saved will be 
when the New Era has come : The time which 
the prophets have all spoken of since the world 
began — even of the "restoration of all things,'' 
and when this time shall have come, the an- 
cient date for reckoning time w^ill end, and the 
throne of David will never be in w^ant of a King, 
under the new dispensation spoken of in the above 
prophecy. 

Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I 
shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I 
will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the 
w^astes shall be builded. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 31 

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas 
it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 

And they shall say, This land that was desolate 
is become like the garden of Eden; and the was1e 
and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, 
and are inhabited. 

Then the heathen that are left round about you 
shall know that I the Lord build the ruined pla- 
ces, and plant that that was desolate : I the Lord 
have spoken it, and I will do it. 

Thus saiththe Lord God ; I will yet for this be 
inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for 
them ; I will increase them with men like a flock. 

As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in 
her solemn feasts ; so that the waste cities be filled 
with flocks of men : and they shall know that I 
am the Lord. (Ezekiel 36 :33-38). 

We annex the following testimony : 

"An important society has been formed in Eu- 
rope, called the International Society of the Ori- 
ent, to prevent the grave complications arising 
out of the Eastern Question and to regenerate the 
East, by infusing therein the spirit of western 
civilization. To accomplish this great result, the 
Society, which enrolls among its members, such 
men as Napoleon, Rothchilds, and JVlontefiore, 
proposes to favor the development of agriculture, 
industry, commerce, and public works in the East, 
especially in Palestine ; to obtain from the Turk- 
ish government certain privileges and monopo- 
lies, chief of which is the gradual concession and 
advancement of the lands of Palestine ; to distrib- 
ute at cash prices such of those lands as the com- 
pany receives, and to efiect the colonization of 
the most fertile villages of the Holy Land. The 
Society, after having established its commercial 



32 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



bureau at Constantinople and other cities of the 
Turkish empire, will construct a port at Joppa, 
and a good road, or railroad, from that city to Je- 
rusalem. Upon the north of this road, the Socie- 
ty expects land to be conceded by Turkey, which 
they will sell to Israelitish families. ' These, in 
their turn, will create new colonies, aided by their 
Oriental co-religionists, and it is expected special 
committees will send thither Jews of Morocco, 
Poland, Moldavia, Wallachia, from the East, 
and from Mrica. The society claims that the plan 
will reconstruct the holy places of Jerusalem in 
a Christian manner, put an end to the constant 
conflict between the great powers in reference to 
them, transform the ancient Jerusalem into a new 
and great city, create European colonies, which 
will become, in time, the centers, whence Occi- 
dental civilization will spread in Turkey and pen- 
etrate to the remote Orient. The Society is being 
rapidly formed, with the strongest influences, 
financial and political at its back. The Roth- 
cliilds, Mores, Montefiore, and other great capi- 
talists among the Jew^s, are actively in sympathy 
with the undertaking. The plan has also the fa- 
vor of more than one crowned head in Europe ; 
amongst them, Napoleon, of whose special theo- 
ries of nationalities it is a development. Several 
prominent noblemen of England, and the leading 
names of the Faubourg St. Germain are also 
among its friends." 

And therefore wdll the Lord wait, that he may 
be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be ex- 
alted, that he may have mercy upon j^ou : for the 
Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they 
that w^ait for him. 

For the people shall dw^ell in Zion at J erusa- 
lem : thou shalt weep no more : he will be very 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 33 



gracious unto tliee at the voice of thy cry ; when 
he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 

And though the Lord give you the bread of ad- 
versity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not 
thy teachers bo removed into a corner any more, 
but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, 
saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye 
turn to the rifj'ht hand, and when ye turn to the 
left. (Isaiah^-^ 0:18-21). 

Daniel March, D. D., utters the following noble 

and truthful statement : 

Under the Divine guidance the men who made 
the deepest impress upon the life of the "world, 
were not the men who founded cities, and con- 
quered nations, and governed empires, but the pil- 
grims and wanderers who dwelt in tents and found 
in the Almighty God their shield and exceeding 
great reward. We cannot point to fallen columns, 
and ruined temples, and desolate cities and say : 
These are the works of our father Abraham. But 
we can find his living memorial in the life and 
character of the best and bravest men of all suc- 
ceeding time. * * Moses lived eighty years in 
the desert, and his only home was a tent. And 
Yet these tv\^o mighty men of faith are still mon- 
archs in the realm of mind, friends and fathers in 
the sacred empire of home. 

For Zion,s sake will I not hold my peace, and 
for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the 
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and 
the salvation thereof as a lamp that burnetii. 

And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, 
and all kings thy glory: and thou shall be called 
hy a new name, which the mouth of the Lord 
shall name. 



U THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



1 



Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand 
of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of 
thy God. 

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken ; nei- 
ther shall thy land any more be termed Desolate : 
but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land 
Beulah : for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy 
land shall be married. 

For as a young man marrietli a virgin, so shall 
thy sons marry thee : and as the bridegroom re- 
joiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice 
over thee. 

I have set watchmen upon thj^ walls, O Jerusa- 
lem, wdiich shall never hold their peace day nor 
night rye that make mention of the Lord, keep 
not silence, 

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till 
he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 

The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by 
the arm of his strength. Surely I will no more 
give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and 
the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, 
for the wdiicli thou hast laboured : 

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, aud 
praise the Lord ; and they that have brought it to- 
gether ishall drink it in the courts of my holiness. 

Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye 
the w^ay of the people ; cast u}), cast up the high- 
way ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for 
the people. 

Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end 
of the world. Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Be- 
hold, thy salvation cometh ; behold, his reward is 
with him, and his work before him. 

And they shall call them, The holy people, The 
redeemed of the Lord : and thou shalt be called, 
Sought out, A city not forsaken. (Isa. 62 :1-12). 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 35 

"Palestine is not such a desert as some people 
suppose. Even after the waste and exhaustion of 
4000 years it exhibits surprising fertility. The 
hill country of Galilee yields crops which indicate 
a production equal to all that Josephus has said 
of it. South of Bethlehem they raise two crops 
a year. Their grapes almost rival the clusters of 
Eshcol, a single vine having 100 , bunches of 
grapes, each three feet long and each grape three 
and one half inches in circumference. They 
have Indian corn eleven feet high. Water-melons 
twenty, thirty, and forty pounds weight, and bean 
pods thirteen inches long and six on a stem. — 
Their quince-trees yield 400 quinces each, which 
are larger than the largest apples of New Eng- 
land, and a single citron-tree yields 510 pounds of 
fruit." 

I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and be- 
hold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 

Then said I, Whither goest thouV And he said 
unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is 
the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 

And, behold, the angel that talkea with me went 
forth, and another angel went out to meet him. 

And said unto him, Run, speak to this young 
man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as 
towns without walls for the multitude of men 
aLd cattle therein: 

For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall 
of fire round about, and will be the glory in the 
midst of her. 

Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of 
the north, saith the Lord : for I have spread you 
abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the 
Lord. 

Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the 
dausfhler of Babylon. 



86 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



For thus saitli the Lord of hosts ; After the glory 
hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled 
you : for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple 
of his eye. 

Eor, behold, I Will shake mine hand upon them, 
and they shall be a spoil to their servants : and ye 
shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. 

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I 
come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith 
the Lord. 

And many nations shall be joined to the Lord 
in that day, and shall be my people : and I will 
dwell in the midst of thee, and thou slialt know 
that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. 

And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion 
in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem 
again. 

Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord : for he is 
raised up out of his holy habitation. (Zechariah 
2:1-13). 

To protect the city of Jerusalem, in past ages, a 

wall was erected ; but the weapons of war now 

used, demand something more efficient : God has 

promised to be a defense in the age of Israel's 

victory and redemption. 

In that day will I make the governors of Judah 
like a heartli of fire among the wood, and like a 
torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all 
the people round about, on the right hand and on 
the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again 
in her own place, even in Jerusalem. 

The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, 
that the glory of the house of David and the glory 
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify 
themselves against Judah. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 37 

In that clay shall the Lord defend the Inhabitants 
of Jerusalem ; and he that is feeble among them 
at that day shall be as David; and the house of 
David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord 
before them. 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will 
seek to destroy all the nations that come against 
Jerusalem. (Zech. 12:5-9). 

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what des- 
olations he hath made in the earth. * 

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the 
earth ; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear 
in sunder ; he burnetii the chariot in the fire. 

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be ex- 
alted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the 
earth. 

The Lord of hosts is with us ; the God of Jacob 
is our refuge. Selah. (Psalms 46 :8-ll). 

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I 
will make a new covenant with the house of Is- 
rael, and with the house of Judah : 

Not according to the covenant that I made with 
their fathers, in the day that I took them by the 
hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; 
which my covenant they break, although I was a 
husband unto them, saith the Lord : 

But this shall be the covenant that I will make 
with the house of Israel: After those days, saith 
the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, 
and write it in their hearts ; and will be iheir 
God, and tliey shall be my people. 

And they shall teach no more every man his 
neighbour, and every man his brother, saying. 
Know the Lord : for they shall all know me, from 
the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith 
the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I 
:wiir remember their sin no more. 



38 THE JEWIbH MONITOR AND 



Thus saitli the Lord, which giveth the sun for a 
light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and 
of the stars for a light by night, which divideth 
the sea when the waves thereof roar ; The Lord 
of hosts is his name : 

If those ordinances depart from before me, saith 
the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease 
from being a nation before me for ever. 

Thus saith tJie Lord; If heaven above can 
be measured, and the foundations of the earth 
searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the 
seed of Israel for all that they hav^e done, saith 
I he Lord. 

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the 
city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of 
Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. 

And the measuring line shall yet go forth over 
against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass 
about to Goath. 

And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and 
of the ashes, and all the field unto the brook of 
Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward 
the east, shall be holy unto the Lord ; it shall not 
be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for 
ever. (Jer. 31 :31-40). 



The (covenant alluded to in the above, was nev- 
er made with Israel and Judah ; it is a different 
agreement from that made under the direction 
of Moses in the exodus from Egypt. In the new 
covenant, all are to become acquainted with God 
No teachers will be required ; hence, we need not 
expect to find this covenant on earth at the pres- 
ent time, for the world is encumbered with teach- 
ers; and I nius^ sny (will the reader dissent?) that 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 39 



the following, clipped from "Spirit of the Times," 
is only an echo from the dark ages from which 
we are not fully recovered ; and were it not for the 
faithful Hebrews, how much would the present 
generation know of Jehovah : 

A young minister had gone to a prosperous 
church to preach his lirst sermon. Before leav- 
ing the house the gentleman who was entertaining 
him suggested to him not to preach against the 
Universalists. "There are," said he, "several 
Universalist families who have pews in our 
church, and we don't want them oflended." The 
young minister promised. At the church vesti- 
bule one of the deacons drew him aside, and said, 
"Do you see those gentlemen just passing in ? 
They are Spiritualists, but come here to church 
occasionally. I wish you would be a little careful 
not to say anything that might hurt their feelings." 
The minister promised. As he was ascending the 
pulpit steps, one of the elders button-holed him 
for a moment to whisper an additional caution — 
"The leading liquor dealer has just come into the 
church, and he gives us a lift sometimes. I wish 
you would be particular not to allude to the whis- 
ky business or the temperance question." The 
young minister, getting fairly frightened to see 
the moral ground thus steadily narrowing before 
him, inquired, "Pray, who or what shall I preach 
against, then ?" The elder's reply came with an 
air of triumph — "Preach against the Jews ; they 
haven't got a friend in town." 

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be 
glad for them ; and the desert shall rejoice, and 
blossom as the rose. 

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even. 



40 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall 
be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and 
Sharon; they shall see the glory of the Lord, and 
the excellency of our God. 

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the 
feeble knees. 

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, 
fear not: behold, your God will come with ven- 
geance, even God with a recompense; he will 
come and save you. .^ 

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and 
the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 

Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the. 
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness 
shall waters bi*eak out, and streams in the desert. 

And the parched ground shall become a pool, 
and the thirsty land springs of water : in the hab- 
itation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass 
with reeds and rushes. 

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and 
it shall be called The way of holiness ; the unclean 
shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the 
wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 

No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast 
shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there ; 
but the redeemed shall walk there : 

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and 
come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon 
their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, 
and sorrow and sighing shall flee awav. (Isaiah 
85:1-10). 

The following, which we quote from the "Jew- 
ish Times," published in New York, favors the 
Colonization of Palestine : 

Sir Moses Moiitefiore, the venerable advocate of 
the Jews, has issued a circular letter urging the 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 41 

colonization of Palestine and the encouragement 
of Jewish agriculturists and mechanics. The 
project seems by no means impracticable. What- 
ever opinion people of a liberal turn of mind may 
entertain regarding the veneration due to the an- 
cient home of the Jews, there can be no doubt 
entertained that millions of Jews look upon Pal- 
estine as the land holy par excellence, the place 
nearest to the future abode of bliss, and in direct 
connection with the Paradise of Saints. An irre- 
pressible desire and burning longing dwell in 
the breasts of thousands of our brethren for the 
land which, in their opinion, is alone worthy to 
contain the temple for the worship of the true 
God, and where the}^ may best secure the due 
preparation for entering the home of eternity. 

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the 
Lord, that it shall no more be said. The Lord liv- 
eth, that brought up the children of Israel out of 
the land of Egypt ; 

But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the chil- 
dren of Israel from the land of the north, and 
from all the lands whither he had driven them : 

i and I will bring them again into their land that I 

I gave unto their fathers. 

j Behold, 1 will send for many lishers, saith the 
I Lord, and they shall tish them; and after will I 
j send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them 
from every mountain, and from every hill, and 
I out of the holes of the rocks. 

I For mine eyes are upon all their ways : they are 
not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid 
, from mine eyes. 

j And first I will recompense their iniquity and 

j their sin double; because they have defiled my 

land, they have filled mine inheritance with the 



4a THE JEWISH MONITOK AND 

carcasses of llieir detestable and abominable 

*^O^Lord my strength, and my fortress and my 
ref^se^nth^clayof atliiction, the Gentiles shal 
com! unto thee from the ends of the earth and 
sha 1 «av Surely our fathers have mhented lies, 
faSV and thfngs .herein there is no proflt.- 
(Jer. 16:14-19.. 

When the promises of God to the Hebrews are 
beginning to be made manifest again, the Gentiles 
will doubt the correctness of their long cherished 
belief, that God has cast the Jews off forever I 
will here say that many good men believe in the 

literal return of Israel to their promised land. 

Rev. Charles Wesley, a great reformer, who 
•frequently expressed his feeling and belief on 

iis subject furnishes the following: 

Almighty God of love. 

Set up the attracting sign. 
And summon whom thou dost approve 

For messengers divine. 

From favored Abram's seed. 

The new Apostles choose ; 
In Isles and Continents to spread, 

The Dead-reviving news. 

We know it shall be done ! 

'Tis God's almighty word; 
All Israel shall the Messiah own, 

To their first state restored. 



PART SECOND. 



ISRAEL'S FINAL, REDEMPTION, 



Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall 
prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom 
ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even 
the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight 
in : behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. 

But who may abide the day of his coming ? and 
who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like 
a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap : 

And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of sil- 
ver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and 
purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer 
unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. 

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusa- 
lem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of 
old, and as in former years. 

Many persons have supposed that John, the 
Baptist, was the messeng(;r spoken of in the above 
prophecy, but let the reader review for a moment- 
The Lord did not suddenly come to his temple in 
the personage of Christ ; he taught in the temple, 
but they had power to abuse him and "Cast him 
out;" but when the above is fulfilled "Who may 
abide the day of his coming and who shall be 
able to stand?" 

The offering of Judah and Jerusalem is to be 



44 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

pleasant unto the Lord as in the days of old.'' — 
These are occurrences demanding of us more than 
an ordinary thought ; they have never taken place, 
hence they are future. 

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like 
the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, 
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought 
him near before him. 

And there was given him dominion, and glor}^ 
and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and lan- 
guages, should serve him : his dominion is an ever- 
lasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and 
his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. — 
(Dan. 7 :13-14). 

Should times change, and Israel become as *4n 
former years ;" then the days will be Ancient days 
or like unto the ancient times ; And Daniel saw 
one come with the clouds of heaven, and receive 
a kingdom composed of all people and nations, 
we have no account of this having taken place, 
hence it must be future. 

Who is this that cometii from Edom, with dyed 
garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in 
his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his 
strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty 
to save. 

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and 
thy garments like him th^it treadeth in the winefat ! 

I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the 
people there was none with me : for I will tread 
them in mine anger, and trample them in my fu- 
ry ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my 
garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAJSTD. 45 

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and 
the year of my redeemed is come. 

And I looked, and there was none to help ; and 
I wondered that there was none to uphold : there- 
fore mine own arm brought salvation unto me ; 
and my fury, it upheld me. 

And I will tread down the people in mine an- 
ger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will 
bringdown their strength to the earth. 

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, 
Bnd the praises of the Loixl, according to all that 
the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great good- 
ness toward the house of Israel, which he hath 
bestowed on them according to his mercies, and 
according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 

For he said. Surely they are my people, children 
that will not lie : so he was their Saviour. 

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the 
Angel of his presence saved them : in his love and 
in his pity he redeemed them ; and he bare them, 
and carried them all the days of old. (Isaiah 63 : 
1-9). 

The various dispensations, at different times, 

according to the record of the past, have estab 

lished the fact, that God has appointed certain 

times for special work to be performed on the 

^ earth. Although the time may seem long, and 
the persecutor's hand not withheld, and thousands 
of Urm believers in God's promises made to bow 

I down to Idols, yet "the day of vengeance" will 

\ come, and the year of redemption to those who 

j worship the God of our fathers. 

And tbe Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto 



46 THE JEWI8H MONITOR AND 



thein that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith 
the Lord. 

As tor me, this is my covenant with them, saith 
the Lord; My Spirit that is upon thee, and my 
words which I have put in thy moutli, shall not 
depart oat of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of 
thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth 
and forever. (Isa. 59:20-21). 

The Spirit spoken of in the above, will harmo- 
nize earth with heaven ; be a covenant of perpet- 
ual peace ; a medium by which men will be taught 
God's ways, giving him direct access to all Light 
and Truth, thereby exalting him in the kingdom 
of Grod and perfecting him for eternal life. 

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy 
spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee . 

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem 
to battle ; and the city shall be taken, and the 
houses rifled, and the women ravished ; and half 
of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the 
residue of the people shall not be cut off from the 
city. 

Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against 
those nations, as when he fought in the day of 
battle. 

And his feet shall stand in that day upon the 
mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on 
the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in 
the midst thereof toward the east and toward the 
west, and there shall be a very great valley ; and 
half of the mountain shall remove toward the 
north, and half of it toward the south. 

And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains ; 
for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto 






GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 



Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from be- 
fore the earthquake in the day s of Uzziah king of 
Judah : and the lord my God shall come, and all 
the saints with thee. 

* * « * 

And the Lord shall be King over all the earth : # 
in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name 
one. 

All the land shall be turned as a plain from 
Geba to Eimmon south of Jerusalem : and it shall 
be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Ben- 
jamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto 
the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel 
unto the king's winepresses. 

And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be 
no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall 
be safely inhabited. 

And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord 
will smite all the people that have fought against . 
Jerusalem ; Their flesh shall consume away while 
they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall 
consume away in their holes, and their tongue 
shall consume* away in their mouth. 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a 
great tumult from the Lord shall be among them • 
and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of 
his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against 
the hand of his neighbour. 

And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and 
the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be 
gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, 
in great abundance. 

And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the 
mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the 
beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is, 



48 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



left of all the nations which came against Jerusa- 
lem, shall even go up from year to year to worship 
the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast 
of tabernacles. (Zech. 14:16). 

From the above prophecy we learn that a great 
division of the spoil is to take place in Jerusalem ; 
various nations are to unite to subdue the Jewish 
nation; the reckless soldiers will plunder the 
houses, and abuse and outrage the women ; half 
of the city, only, is to go into captivity ; then the 
Lord appears on the mount of Olives and the 
mount is cleft asunder leaving a great valley in 
its place ; the remaining Israelites resort, at once, 
to this valley for safety ; all controversy is over, 
and the residue of all nations that fought against 
Jerusalem are required to go up annually to wor- 
ship at Jerusalem. 

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the 
great prince which standeth for the children of 
thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, 
such as never was since there was a nation even 
to that same time : and at that time thy people 
shall be delivered, every one that shall be found 
written in the book. 

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the 
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and 
some to shame and everlasting contempt. 

And they that be wise shall shine as the bright- 
ness of the firmament ; and they that turn many 
to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever. — 
(Daniel 12:1-3). 

The "trouble" that is yet to come upon Israel, 



GL^IDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 49 



in the hour of their redemption, will, doubtless, 
be wonderful ; but it will soon pass over, and Ju- 
dah be saved forever ; for He who holds the keys 
of death and the grave will come to his own, 
i and fully reward them by dividing their inherit- 
ance ; removing the original curse from the earth, 
;and opening the gates to the Garden of Eden by 
the removing of the "Flaming Sword," once 
placed there to guard it, while millions of reck- 
I less soldiers and those who have persisted in peir- 
' secuting God's chosen people, are confounded. 

The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw con- 
cerning Juciali and Jerusalem. 

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that 
the mountain of the L'ord's house shall be estab- 
lished in the top of the mountains, and shall be 
[exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow 
unto it. 

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, 
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to 
the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach 
us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : for 
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word 
of the Lord from Jerusalem. 

And he shall judge among the nations, and 

I shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat 

I their swords into ploughshares, and their spears 

into pruninghonks : nation shall not lift up sword 

against nation, neither shall they learn war any 

more. 

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in 
die lighl of the Lord. (Isa. 2:1-5). 



50 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

The re-building of the Lord's house at Jerusa- 
lem will be done with a view to fully establish 
peace, not only in Israel, but among all nations. 
On many of the pages of this book, the Prophets 
have declared that God would be exalted among 
all people. Jehovah has plainly informed us that 
he would yet choose Israel and cause them to send 
forth the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. The 
word of God being His law, the nations will be 
required to obey it in order to abide the Millen- 
nial reign ; and they must, also, cease to learn w^ar. 

For God will save Zion, and will build the cit- 
ies of Judah : that they may dwell there, and have 
it in possession. 

The seed also of his servant shall inherit it: and 
they that love his name shall dwell therein. — 
(Psalms 69 :35-36). 

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go 
into the house of the Lord. 

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusa- 
lem. 

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact 
together : 

Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, 
unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto 
the name ot the Lord. 

For there are set thrones of judgment, the 
thrones of the house of David. 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall 
prosper that love thee. 

Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity with- 
in thy palaces. 

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will 
now say. Peace be within thee. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 51 

Because of the house of the Lord our God I 
will seek thy good. (Psalms 102 :l-9). 

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones 
are the whole house of Israel : behold, they ^ay. 
Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost ; we are 
cut off for our parts. 

Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus 
saith the Lord God : Behold, O my people, I will 
open your graves, and cause you to come up out 
of your graves, and bring you into the land of 
Israel. 

And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I 
have opened your graves, O my people, and 
brouglit you up out of your graves, 

And shall put my spirit in you, and ye sha 1 
live, and I shall place you in your own land ; then 
shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and 
performed it, saith the Lord. (Ezekiel 37 :11-14). 

The hope of the resurrection was ancient Isra- 
el's hope : The people who lived near to God and 
kept his commands did not anticipate a reward 
until the true Messiah, or Shiloh, comes to the 
earth and fully establish the expected kingdom : 
when those who are waiting within the gates of 
the Paradise of God are called to take their places 
appointed them. Nothing can appear more sub- 
lime than to behold the Twelve Tribes of Israel 
marching in perfect order, each taking its respect- 
ive place, with no envious spirit pervading their 
breasts ; When the knowledge of God fully covers 
the earth and the Spirit of God dwells with all 
flesh. 

Abraham "Sought a City whose maker and 



52 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

builder is God." He saw the Holy City, in a vis- 
ion, as it would be finally established on the earth 
The modern method of spiritualizing the word of 
God, especially where it relates to the changes to 
be made on this earth, will prove to be a myth to 
those who may be living a few^ years hence. The 
great day o f miracles is now^ beginning to appear, 
and will inc rease in power until Israel is estab- 
lished in order on the Earth. 

Moses did a noble work in God's name in the 
recovery of the Hebrews from a terrible bondage, 
but his great achievement vanishes and is lost ; 
but they shall exclaim, "The Lord livetli that 
brought the children of Israel from the North 
Country and from all nations whither the Lord 
hath driven them." Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 
together with Moses and all the Prophets, have 
plainly told us that the reward of the righteous 
was to be "At the time of the end. Job under- 
stood this and wrote to that effect: 

Oh that my words were now written ! oh that 
they were printed in a book ! 

That they were graven with an iron pen and 
lead in the rock for ever ! 

Eor I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that 
he shall stantl at the latter day upon the earth: 

And thougli after my skin worms destroy this 
body, yet in m\ flesh shall I see God : 

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes 
shall behold, and not another; though my reins 
be consumed within me. (Job 19:23-27). 






GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 58 

Abraham did not find the City he sought on 
earth, but will in due time. 

Noah was commanded to build an ark, and he 
did as he was commanded, and thereby saved his 
family. Had Noah lived, and the deluge come 
in our time, some of our brethren might have 
persuaded him that it was a spiritual ark that 
was demanded, and the consequence would be 
a lost family. Moses, also, might be induced to 
believe that it was simply a spiritual deliverance 
wanted in Egypt, and would let his brethren con- 
tinue to toil in slavery and oppression. I would 
here remark that it is well that they lived when 
they did ; and let us not be deceived, for we may 
truthfully look for a literal fulfillment of God's 
word in the gathering again of His people. 

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and 
causest to approach unto thee, th^t he may dwell 
in thy courts : we shall be satisfied with the good- 
ness of thy house, even of the holy temple. — 
(Psalms 65 :4 1 . 

Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he 
shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the 
wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 

I have seen the wicked in great power, and 
spreading himself like a green bay tree. 

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not : yea, 
I sought him, but he could not be found. 

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : 
for the end of that man is peace. (Ps. 37 :84-87). 

When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall 
appear in his glory. 



54 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and 
not despise their prayer. 

This shall be written for the generation to come : 
and the people which shall be created shall praise 
the Lord. 

For he hath looked down from the height of 
his sanctuary ; from heaven did the Lord behold 
the earth; 

To hear the groaning of the prisoner ; to loose 
those that are appointed to death ; 

To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and 
his praise in Jerusalem ; 

When the people are gathered together, and the 
kingdoms, to serve the Lord. (Ps. 102 : 16-22). 



PART THIRD. 



THE christian's MESSIAH. 



In the First and Second Parts of this work, the 
prophetic evidence has been confined strictly to 
the ancient Scriptures: I now quote from the 
New Testament, to obtain evidence of an expect- 
ed government or kingdom^ with a governor or 
ruler, bearing so striking a similarity, both in his 
advent to the earth and his reign in the proposed 
nation with that of the long anticipated Messiah 
of the Jews, that either Jew or Greek may find in 
the few testimonies offered, far less difference be- 
tween the hope of those who wrote the New Tes- 
tament and the Jews, than is commonly supposed 
to exist. 

And as they heard these things, he added and 
spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusa- 
lem, and because they thought that the kingdom 
of God should immediately appear. 

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went in- 
to a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, 
and to return. 

And he called his ten sei*vants, and delivered 
them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till 
1 come. 

But his citizens hated him, and sent a message 
after him, saying, We will not have this man to 
reign over us. 

And it came to pass, that when he was returned 



56 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

having received the kingdom, then he command- 
ed these servants to be called unto him, to whom 
he had given the money, that he might know 
how much every man had gained by trading. — 
(Luke 19 :11-15). 

Watch therefore ; for ye know neither the day 
nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. 

For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travel- 
ling into a far country, who called his own serv- 
ants, and delivered unto them his goods. 

And unto one he gave five talents, to another 
two, and to another one ; to every man according 
to his several abilit}^ ; and straightway took his 
journey. [Mat. 25:13-15]. 

Luke, in the 21st chap, and 24th verse, records 
the following relative to the Jewish nation : 

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, 
and shall be led away captive into all nations: 
and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gen- 
tiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 

History informs us that the above prediction 
has been literally fulfilled; and only at the pres- 
ent time has the tyrant's heel been removed. 

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the 
whole world, and lose his own soul ? or what shall 
a man give in exchange for his soul ? 

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of 
his Father with his angels : and then he shall re- 
ward every man accordino; to his works. [Mat. 
16:26-271. 

Ye are they which have continued with me in 
my temptations. 

And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my 
Father hath appointed unto me ; 






GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 57 

That ye may eat and drink at my table in my 
kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel. [Luke 22 :28-30]. 

The above confirms the testimony already of- 
fered, viz: The perpetual organization of the 
tribes. 

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the 
prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto 
thee, how often would I have gathered thy chil- 
dren together, even as a hen gathereth her chick- 
ens under her wings, and ye would not! 

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 

For I say unto you. Ye shall not see me hence- 
forth, till ye shall say. Blessed is he that cometh 
in the name of the Lord. [Mat. 23 :b7-39]. 

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, 
and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit 
upon the throne of his glory: 

And before him shall be gathered all nations : 
and he shall separate them one from another, as a 
shepherd dividetli his sheep from the goats: 

And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, 
but the goats on the left. [Mat. 25 :3I-:i3]. 

Then answered Peter and said unto him. Be- 
hold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee ; 
what shall we have therefore ? 

And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto 
you. That ye which have followed me, in the re- 
generation when the Son of man shall sit in the 
throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve 
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 

But many that are first shall be last ; and the 
last shall be first. [Mat. 19 :27-30]. 

When they therefore were come together, they 
asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time 
restore again the kingdom to Israel ? 



58 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know 
the times or the seasons, which the Father hath 
put in his own power. 

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy 
Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witness- 
es unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, 
and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of 
the earth. 

And when he had spoken these things, while 
they beheld, he was taken up ; and a cloud re- 
ceived him out of their sight. 

And while they looked steadfastly toward heav- 
en as he w^eiit up, behold, two men stood by them 
in white apparel ; 

Which also said. Ye men of Galilee, wh}^ stand 
ye gazing up into heaven ? this same Jesus, which 
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come 
in like manner as ye have seen bim go into heav- 
en. [Acts 1:6-11]. 

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of 
many ; and unto them that look for him shall he 
appear the second time without sin unto salva- 
tion. [Hebrew^s 9:28]. 

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord 
Jesus (yhrist, who shall judge the quick and the 
dead at his appearing and his kingdom ; 

Preach the word ; be instant in season, out of 
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuf- 
fering and doctrine. [2nd Tim. 4 :l-2]. 

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation 
hath appeared to all men, 

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and 
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, 
and godly, in this present Avorld ; 

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious 
appearing of the great God and our Saviour J esus 
Christ; [Titus 2:11-14] . 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 59 

I give thee charge in the sight of God, who 
quicken eth all things, and before Christ Jesus, 
who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good con- 
fession ; 

That thou keep this commandment without 
spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our 
Lord Jesus Christ : 

When in his times he shall shew, who is the 
blessed and onlv Potentate, the King of kings, 
and Lord of lords ; [1st Tim. 6 :13-lo]. 

But those things, which God before had shewed 
by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ 
should saffer, he hath so fullilled. 

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your 
sins may be blotted out, when the times of refresh- 
ing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; 

And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before 
was preached unto you : 

Whom the heaven must receive until the times 
of restitution of all things, which God hath spok- 
en by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the 
world began. [Acts 3 : 18-21]. 

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when 
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with 
his mighty angels, 

* -K- * * * 

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, 
and to be admired in all them that believe (be- 
cause our testimony among you was believed in 
that day. [2nd Thes. 1 :7-10]. 

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, proph- 
esied of these, saying. Behold, the Lord cometh 
with ten thousand of his saints, [Jude 1 :14]. 

Behold, he cometh with clouds ; and every eye 
shall see him, and they also which pierced him : 
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because 
of him. Even so, Amen. (Rev. 1:7). 



60 THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 

For I would not, brethren, that ye sliould be 
ignorant of this mystery, ( lest ye should be wise 
in your own conceits) that blindness in part is 
happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gen- 
tiles be come in. 

And so all Israel shall be saved : as it is written, 
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and 
shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : 

For this is my covenant unto them, when I 
shall take away their sins. 

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for 
your sakes : but as touching the election, they are 
beloved for the fathers' sakes. (Eom. 10 :25-28). 

But I would not have you to be ignorant breth- 
ren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye 
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, 
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God 
bring with him. 

For this we say unto you by the word of the 
Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto 
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them 
which are asleep. 

For tli(^ Lord himself shall descend from heav- 
en with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, 
and with the trump of God : and the dead in 
Christ shall rise lirst: 

Then we which are alive and remain shall be 
caught up together with them in the clouds, to 
meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be 
with the Lord. (1st Thes. 4 :13-17). 

And now I stand and am judged for the hope 
of the promise made of God unto our fathers : 

Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly 
serving God day and night, hope to come. For 
which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused 
of the Jews. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 61 

Why should it be thought a thing incredible 
with you, that God should raise the dead ! (Acts 
26:6-8j. 

Abraham was forbidden the right to settle in 
Palestine; God notified him that four hundred 
years must pass away before "The iniquity of the 
Amorites was full." Noah had a special mission 
of one hundred and twenty years, to warn the 
Antediluvians of their wickedness, prior to their 
being destroyed by water. Ninevah was warned 
of God's, displeasure, and the days of their pro- 
bation were set. Jesus Christ warned the Jewish 
nation of their overthrow and their dispersion to 
all nations at the point of the sword. 

And now the great sign is, the removal of the 
blindness and the restoration of the Jews to their 
own land from all nations, and the renewal of the 
covenant with them. 

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod : 
and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the 
temple of God, and the altar, and them that wor- 
ship therein. 

But the court w^hich is without the temple leave 
out, and measure it not : for it is given unto the 
Gentiles : and the holy city shall they tread under 
foot forty and two months. 

And 1 will give power unto my two witnesses,, 
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundreds 
and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 

These are the two olive trees, and the two can- 
dlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 

And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth 



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THE JEWISH MONITOR AND 



out of their mouth, aud devoureth their enemies : 
and if any man will hurt them, he must in this 
manner be killed. 

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain 
not in the days of their prophecy: and have pow- 
er over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite 
the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 

And when they shall have finished their testi- 
mony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottom- 
less pit shall make war against them, and shall 
overcome them, and kill them. 

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of 
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom 
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues 
and nations shall sec their dead bodies three days 
and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies 
to be put in graves. 

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice 
over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts 
one to another ; because these two prophets tor- 
mented tJiem that dwelt on the earth. 

And after three days and a half the Spirit of 
life from God entered into them, and they stood 
upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them 
which saw them. 

And they heard a great voice from heaven say- 
ing unto them. Come up hither. And they as- 
cended up to hpaven in a cloud; and their ene- 
mies beheld them. 

And the same hour was there a great earth- 
quake, and the tenth part of the cit}^ fell, and in 
the earthquake were slain of men seven thou- 
sand : and the remnant were affrighted, and gave 
glory to the God of heaven. 

The second w^oe is past ; and, behold, the third 
woe cometh quickly. 



GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND. 63 

And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were 
great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of 
this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, 
and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and 
ever. 

•si: -J?- * * * 

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is 
come, and the time of the dead, that they should 
be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward 
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, 
and them that fear thy name, small and great; 
and shouldest destroy them w^hich destroy the 
earth. (Rev. 11:1-18). 

After the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, 
a certain portion of it is to be measured off for the 
true worshippers, another portion is to be given 
to the Gentiles, who will trample upon the liberties 
of the Hebrews forty and two months, or three 
and a half years. 

Two witnesses of the Jewish nation will be 
chosen of God, w^ho will prophesy and w^arn all 
classes of men, of God's ])urposes concerning the 
earth, and like Elijah of old, they have power 
over the elements, w^hich goes to prove their divine 
mission. God's wrath is come, also the time for 
him to judge the dead and reward the prophets. 

And what shall I more say V for the time would 
fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of 
Sampson, and of Jepthah ; of David also, and 
Samuel, and of the prophets : 

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought 
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the 
mouths of lions. 



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THE JEWISH MONITOR. 



Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge 
of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, 
waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies 
of the aliens. 

Women received their dead raised to life again : 
and others were tortured, not accepting deliver- 
ance ; that they might obtain a better resurrection : 

And others had trial of cruel mockings and 
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and impris- 
onment : 

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, 
were tempted, were slain with the sword : they 
wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins ; be- 
ing destitute, afflicted, tormented ; 

Of whom the world was not worthy : they wan- 
dered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens , 
and caves of the earth. 

And these all, having obtained a good report 
through faith, received not the promise: 

God having provided some better thing for us, 
that they without us should not be made perfect. 
(Heb. 11:32-40). 



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